Microsoft Project 2016 Training Overview
Accelebrate's Introduction to Microsoft® Project 2016 training class teaches attendees the basic and advanced scheduling features of MS Project. Attendees learn how to fine-tune plans, resources, and assignment details, as well as track progress, create custom reports, and much more.
Location and Pricing
Accelebrate offers instructor-led enterprise training for groups of 3 or more online or at your site. Most Accelebrate classes can be flexibly scheduled for your group, including delivery in half-day segments across a week or set of weeks. To receive a customized proposal and price quote for private corporate training on-site or online, please contact us.
In addition, some courses are available as live, instructor-led training from one of our partners.
Objectives
- Quickly start a new plan, build task lists, and assign resources
- Share your plan and track your progress
- Capture and fine-tune work and cost details
- Use Gantt charts and other views and reports to visualize project schedules
- Share resources across multiple plans and consolidate projects
- Master project management best practices while you learn Project
- Look up just the tasks and lessons you need
Prerequisites
Prior experience with Microsoft Office is strongly recommended. No prior experience with Microsoft Project is presumed.
Outline
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Introduction to Microsoft Project
- Meet the Project program
- Meet the Project family
- See the new features in Project 2016
- Take a project manager’s perspective
Take a Guided Tour
- Explore the Project user interface
- Manage files and set options in the Backstage view
- Work with schedule details in views
- Use reports to check a plan’s status
Start a New Plan
- Create a new plan and set its start date
- Set nonworking days in the project calendar
- Enter the plan title and other properties
Build a Task List
- Create tasks
- Enter task durations and dates
- Enter milestone tasks
- Create summary tasks to outline the plan
- Link tasks to create dependencies
- Switch task scheduling from manual to automatic
- Check a plan’s duration and finish date
- Document task information
Set Up Resources
- Set up work resources
- Enter the maximum capacity for work resources
- Enter work resource pay rates
- Adjust working time in a resource calendar
- Set up cost resources
- Document resources by using notes
Assign Resources to Tasks
- Assign work resources to tasks
- Control work when adding or removing resource assignments
- Assign cost resources to tasks
- Check the plan after assigning resources
Format and Share Your Plan
- Customize a Gantt chart view
- Add tasks to a Timeline view
- Customize reports
- Copy views and reports
- Print views and reports
Track Progress: Basic Techniques
- Understand progress tracking
- Save a baseline of your plan
- Track a plan as scheduled
- Enter a task’s completion percentage
- Enter actual values for tasks
Fine-Tune Task Scheduling
- See task relationships by using Task Path
- Adjust task link relationships
- Control task scheduling by using constraints
- Interrupt work on a task
- Adjust working time for individual tasks
- Control task scheduling by using task types
- See task schedule details by using the Task Inspector
Fine-Tune Task Details
- Enter deadline dates
- Enter fixed costs
- Create a recurring task
- View the plan’s critical path
- Schedule summary tasks manually
Fine-Tune Resource and Assignment Details
- Change resource availability over multiple date ranges
- Work with multiple resource pay rates
- Change resource pay rates over different date ranges
- Delay the start of assignments
- Apply contours to assignments
- Create and assign material resources
- View resource capacity
- Adjust assignments in the Team Planner view (Project Professional only)
Fine-Tune The Project Plan
- Examine resource allocations over time
- Resolve resource overallocations manually
- Level overallocated resources
- Check the plan’s cost and finish date
- Inactivate tasks (Project Professional only)
Organize Plan Details
- Sort plan details
- Group plan details
- Filter plan details
- Create new tables
- Create new views
Track Progress: Detailed Techniques
- Update a baseline
- Track actual and remaining work for tasks and assignments
- Track timephased actual work for tasks and assignments
- Reschedule incomplete work
View and Report Project Status
- Examine a plan’s variance
- Identify tasks that have slipped
- Examine task costs
- Examine resource costs
Format and Print Views: In-Depth Techniques
- Format a Gantt chart view
- Format a Timeline view
- Format a Network Diagram view
- Format a Calendar view
- Print and export views
Format Reports: In-depth Techniques
- Create a custom report
- Customize charts in a report
- Customize tables in a report
Customize Project
- Share custom elements between plans
- Record and run macros
- Edit macros
- Customize the ribbon and Quick Access Toolbar
Share Information With Other Programs
- Copy Project data to and from other programs
- Open files in other formats in Project
- Save to other file formats from Project
- Generate reports with Excel and Visio
Consolidate Projects and Resources
- Share a resource pool across multiple plans
- Consolidate plans
- Create dependencies between plans
Conclusion
Training Materials
All Microsoft Project training attendees receive comprehensive courseware.
Software Requirements
- Microsoft Project 2016
- Microsoft Office 2016 (or at least Excel and Word)
